Report Examines Child Welfare Reform and Its Impact On Minority-Governed Agencies

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During an interview previously reported in the AmNews, [John B. Mattingly] said he believed people would generally agree that getting in to help a family before the children are in danger is the best thing to do. With New York having one of the largest preventive programs in the country, Mattingly said, "I think that we need to strengthen programs because they are working with families that have a lot of different problems. And if we are going to continue to rely on them, which I believe we should, we need to make sure that they have the resources they need to help multi-problem families."

"Our first goal is to keep every child in every New York City community safe," said Mattingly during his self-proclaimed lengthy speech. Acknowledging that the agency's measure of success depends on how well it meets the very specific, unique, and differing needs of this city's communities, Mattingly added, "The first task is to meet the one very basic and essential need all of those we serve share: to have service providers interact and engage in a way they understand, linguistically and culturally."

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Report Examines Child Welfare Reform and Its Impact On Minority-Governed Agencies

After intense public scrutiny over alleged ACS oversights or workers' negligence that purportedly contributed to faulty protection of children, as in the case of 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown and many other instances, child welfa...

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